tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4297242917419089261.post3043554257342264678..comments2024-03-09T01:05:10.754-08:00Comments on Babies Learning Language: On "training" your childrenMichael Frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00681533046507717821noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4297242917419089261.post-47285477295534478402015-01-06T22:09:30.645-08:002015-01-06T22:09:30.645-08:00They didn't mention this critical point. I com...They didn't mention this critical point. I completely agree with you. Parenting is all about overfitting to your specific, dense longitudinal data. IMO, good parenting advice can be a kind of regularization term on that prediction, but no statistical model performs well when you regularize it to have only the intercept (e.g. the group level mean). Michael Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00681533046507717821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4297242917419089261.post-37634931708694827422015-01-06T21:38:52.286-08:002015-01-06T21:38:52.286-08:00Although I must admit that I didn't read the W...Although I must admit that I didn't read the WP article, only your summary :). Maybe they did mention this point.Shravan Vasishthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05926656325558456592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4297242917419089261.post-22721120704802651582015-01-06T21:37:52.378-08:002015-01-06T21:37:52.378-08:00To me the key problem with the WP article is that ...To me the key problem with the WP article is that they assume that there is an average behavior that is somehow relevant to a particular, individual child's case. Unfortunately, we make this mistake all the time in our research too: we report average behavior with some (uninterpretable) 95% confidence intervals around it. "The average is an abstraction; the reality is variation" (The Norm Chronicles).<br /><br />PS Our son stayed in bed with us till he was 6 or 7 (actually, I moved to another room for those 6 or so years due to the elbow-in-face problem), and then one night we just moved him to his room and that was it, he has been fine with that. I can't say that'd work for everyone; probably wouldn't. <br />Shravan Vasishthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05926656325558456592noreply@blogger.com